Chapter 286: 201: Ghost House and Horror Movie Plan (First Update)
“Having fun?”
Su Jie raised his right hand, and Primordial Soul Power swept over like water.
All the corpses and firearm parts on the floor, including the bloodstains, floated up and were drawn into the Storage Bag to avoid dirtying the cinema.
“They don’t even qualify as Cultivators, so how dare they make a move?”
Han Ruyan didn’t react much; she simply didn’t understand why a few ordinary people had attacked her.
Are the humans of this Pocket World all so unafraid of death?
“Here, there is no concept of Cultivators. Humans rely on external things to fight.”
Su Jie chuckled softly, starting to enlighten Han Ruyan.
“Is it because of Spiritual Energy?”
“That’s right, because there is no Spiritual Energy here, they are all ordinary people.”
“Too weak.”
Han Ruyan found it very hard to understand how such a world could even survive.
“The humans here have embarked on a completely new path. You can’t call them weak; their technological weapons are quite formidable.”
Su Jie pulled out his phone from his pocket and started showing videos of various technological weapons.
When the brilliance of a nuclear bomb rose on the phone screen, Han Ruyan suddenly fell silent.
“Missiles, fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, drilling bombs, incendiary devices, biochemical weapons, neutron bombs… especially the last, nuclear bombs, paired with ballistic missiles, can strike enemies thousands of kilometers away, reaching terminal speeds tens of times the speed of sound, with central temperatures reaching hundreds of millions of degrees.
The strongest nuclear bomb ever created in human history, the Emperor bomb, produced a fireball with a radius of 4600 meters and a mushroom cloud nearly 40 kilometers wide and about 64 kilometers high—over seven times taller than the highest mountain peak in this world.
In addition, the humans here are also researching laser weapons, electromagnetic weapons, genetic weapons, particle beam weapons, nanoweapons, space weapons, antimatter weapons, unmanned intelligent weapons, and so on — you can’t call them weak because of this.”
Su Jie seriously explained to Han Ruyan so she wouldn’t take them lightly.
Other weapons aside, the ultimate human weapon, the nuclear bomb, even if Han Ruyan didn’t have a body, she absolutely couldn’t withstand the massive release of energy from a nuclear explosion, the extreme high temperatures, radiation, various radioactive radiations, shock waves, and electromagnetic pulses.
If it weren’t for fear of attracting the attention of Tianyuan World, Su Jie would consider acquiring a few nuclear bombs.
An innocent man holds no blame, yet possessing a precious item makes him guilty. Such powerful weapons could never be used without being noticed.
After all, the commotion caused by a nuclear explosion is too great, and by then, the beings in the Taoist Platform Realm, perhaps even more powerful beings like a hundred or a thousand times stronger from the Buddhist Saint Monks and Taoist True Immortals, would cast their sights over.
Su Jie never dared to speculate whether the powerful beings of Tianyuan World could find him or not.
You must understand that in Tianyuan World, there are those who unreasonably predict and calculate the fortunes that could pinpoint a person.
As soon as he did it, attracting the gaze of a true powerhouse, he would definitely be exposed.
And in Blue Star, Su Jie temporarily had no need to use nuclear bombs.
Even though he could obtain them and stealthily take several with his Storage Bag.
But while being weaker, it’s better to keep a low profile to avoid drawing too much attention.
If a nuclear bomb was secretly taken, it could at most serve as a warning or show of force, but the fight would still have to be fought.
Russia and Ukraine are examples; Russia having nuclear weapons didn’t avoid war, as intimidation can’t deter those driven by interests.
Unless Su Jie went mad and actually detonated one in a city, which would be an act so grave that he would have no place in Blue Star anymore.
Thus, for Su Jie, nuclear bombs are essentially optional.
His territory is only so large; he doesn’t need such a big toy to decorate his own land.
“It’s a world that seems very weak yet very powerful, quite a contradiction.”
Han Ruyan, watching those weapon videos, began to have a basic understanding of the combat power of this world’s humans.
In her view, even a powerhouse in the Taoist Platform Realm, directly hit by a nuclear bomb, would be reduced to ashes.
But other weaker individual weapons and regular soldiers, facing a Fierce Ghost, even just a First-Grade Fierce Ghost, would find them troublesome enough.
“So they mistaken you for an ordinary person as well, it’s not strange that they dare to strike.”
Su Jie, smiling, pointed at himself: “In this world, I occupy a piece of territory, managing approximately 2.8 million people. At the same time, I’m in conflict with some countries and forces of this world who are actually trying to capture me. You were just hit by mistake.”
“City Lord?”
Han Ruyan, using her understanding, categorized Su Jie’s identity.
“You can consider me a City Lord. Maybe later, as my territory expands, I might even become an Emperor.”
Su Jie took Han Ruyan’s hand and said, “Speaking of which, doesn’t the term ‘City Lord’s wife’ sound much more exciting, fitting for your status, right?”
“These people, can they be killed? To harvest their fear and resentment?”
Han Ruyan’s train of thought, unlike Su Jie’s, ventured into an eerie suggestion.
“You can’t kill them; these people are all my subjects.”
Su Jie firmly suppressed Han Ruyan’s frenzied idea.
“Then outside your territory…”
“We can’t make enemies of the whole world; such actions can’t be taken lightly.”
Su Jie emphasized again, careful not to make any definitive statements.
“In any case, don’t recklessly kill people here. If you want to absorb the fear to grow stronger, I’ll provide you with a new method.”
Han Ruyan calmly looked at Su Jie, seemingly indifferent to his words.
Su Jie, noticing this, pointed to the still playing movie screen: “What do you think about these movies?”
“Too fake.”
Han Ruyan spoke indifferently. No matter how realistically the movie was made, to Han Ruyan, a real fierce ghost, it was just so-so, hardly causing her any emotional turbulence.
Su Jie pondered for a moment and then suddenly said, “What if you were to act as the protagonist in the movie, would you be willing?”
“Make a movie!”
Han Ruyan’s hollow eyes flickered slightly, clearly not understanding.
“Yes, make a movie.”
Su Jie nodded and shared his idea.
“You see, fierce ghosts need fear emotions to enhance their grade! This kind of movie is a very good carrier. After filming it, not only can it be shown in the territory under my management, but it can also be broadcast worldwide. Using the Primordial Spirit Pearl, we can absorb the fear emotions for you to use.”
This inspiration came from what the Heavenly Soul Sect did in Nanyang City.
The Heavenly Soul Sect imprisoned an entire city and turned it into their fear granary.
Every night, they created a procession of hundreds of ghosts, putting the citizens in constant fear and greatly increasing their terror.
Then, they used the Primordial Spirit Pearl to absorb the citizens’ fear emotions, completing round after round of harvest.
Su Jie also planned to operate similarly.
However, he did not intend to create a procession of hundreds of ghosts; it was too attention-grabbing.
Su Jie was not yet strong enough and did not want to expose his supernatural powers.
Therefore, selecting a sufficient fear carrier, horror movies were an excellent choice.
Current movie playback is done using hard drives.
Distribution companies hand over the hard drives to cinemas, play them until the movie is off, and the hard drives are then mailed back to the distribution companies or sent to the upper-level cinema chain for a unified return.
This provided Su Jie with room to operate.
The movie-level hard drives were even larger than power banks.@@novelbin@@
With such a large volume, it was more than enough to fit a Primordial Spirit Pearl the size of a fingernail cap.
When the movie is played, as the hard drive is inserted for playback, the Primordial Spirit Pearl is also activated, covering the entire cinema.
The fear emotions generated by the audience during the film would naturally be absorbed into the Primordial Spirit Pearl.
Of course, this required a lot of manipulation, such as how to disguise the Primordial Spirit Pearl to combine it with the hard drive.
How to achieve enough cinema chain coverage, how to ensure his movies could play adequately and attract more viewers, Su Jie needed to handle these aspects.
Hearing Su Jie’s words, Han Ruyan was silent and did not agree or refuse.
Seeing that Han Ruyan did not refuse, Su Jie knew she was tempted and continued, “You said these movies are too fake, right? In that case, you can be the star and show the world what real ghosts are like, while also harvesting fear emotions. It’s like hitting two birds with one stone.”
Su Jie’s simple provocative technique was indeed effective on Han Ruyan.
“Agreed!”
Han Ruyan uttered a word, agreeing to participate in Su Jie’s horror film scheme.
Upon hearing this, Su Jie’s face showed delight.
The population under his rule was larger than that of Nanyang City, not to mention the billions potentially able to provide vast amounts of fear emotions.
But a horror film, even starring Han Ruyan, could not be watched by people every day, so Su Jie had other ideas.
Suddenly, Su Jie continued, “Besides making movies, I plan to use other methods to absorb fear emotions, which will involve your fierce ghost subordinates.”
In this world, there is an amusement venue known as the Ghost House.
People seeking sensory thrills would venture in to challenge it, and the Ghost House would have humans dressed up as fake ghosts.
We would do the opposite by using real ghosts for the act, ensuring enough thrills and a continuous flow of fear emotions.”
Su Jie talked about another plan, which was to set up a Ghost House.
Although the movie’s coverage is broad, reaching millions of viewers.
But once a movie is played, the viewers wouldn’t go to watch it a first time.
Even if some watched it two or three times, the fear threshold would increase significantly.
After all, knowing where the scary parts are, people would be prepared, and their fear emotions would decrease significantly.
Ghost Houses are different; each day, as long as there is enough traffic, fear emotions would be flowing continuously, not having the kind of gaps that movies have when they are taken down.
Moreover, watching on a screen is completely different from being on the spot in a Ghost House; the brought fear is fundamentally different.
A typical Ghost House might be instantly seen as fake, not scaring people much.
But the Ghost House that Su Jie planned to set up would have real fierce ghosts personally taking part.
The fear that would be brought could be too terrifying, making people piss themselves, possibly even causing heart attacks.
Though Ghost Houses had fewer numbers compared to the people covered by movies, the quality was high, and both could perfectly offset and complement each other.”
“It seems a bit troublesome, but I’ll leave it to you,” she said.
Han Ruyan found it troublesome, far less straightforward than directly killing people.
But since Su Jie wouldn’t let her kill indiscriminately, she could only gather fear energy this way.
After all, it was her fierce ghost subordinates doing the actual work, so she naturally had no reason to refuse.
Now Han Ruyan needed fear energy to enhance her grade; she did not want to keep running away the next time she encountered a sixth-grade fierce ghost.
Su Jie needed Han Ruyan to become stronger. With a top Sixth Grade Wedding Dress Ghost, if they encountered Zou Minzun again later, Su Jie would be confident enough to beat him.